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>> Buck ... your protest would be far more genuine if you just acknowledged
>> the fact that what Noon wrote is correct. These systems all started on
>> IBM mainframes. Ask me how I know. ;-)

> > > You see: some of these "impartial observers" are sooo ready> to blame everything they don't know or have never seen> on the nearest target...> > Completely forgetting of course that this is the Usenet, and> no amount of "shut up orders" from them will work.> Pity it ain't a moderated ng where crap can go on> unchallenged for as long as the "owners" want, eh?> Darn!> > One very simple way of this thread stopping: stop posting> false and derogatory remarks about IBM's competitors.> There: simple and easy to understand, even for an IBM marketeer.